NJ Clinic Closed After 5 Children Receive 'Wrong' Vaccines, Neurological Damage Feared

Abcnews.go.com reports: Health authorities have shut down a New Jersey clinic after finding that five children had been given improper vaccines at the county-run facility. Of the 22 patients treated at the “Shots for Tots” clinic between June 2014 and June 2015, five children were subjected to “medication dispensing errors,” the Salem County Board of Chosen Freeholders said in a statement. All the children were younger than 5 and their families have been notified, officials said. Two of the children were given out-of-date vaccines, one child’s chart was illegible, a 1-year-old child was given a flu mist approved only for those older than 2 and, most worryingly, a 2-year-old boy was given too much Gardisil, the county board said. “The nature, likelihood and extent of any negative health effects, if any, are not presently known other than that the child may be at risk of neurologic damage,” county officials said of the child who received an "excess" of the Gardisil vaccine, which fights against the HPV virus to decrease the risk of cervical cancer....